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Jekyll Island

by Ed Shad
Lizzi Bougatsos Glenn Brown, Steve DiBenedetto, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson, Justin Lieberman, Bjarne Melgaard, Jin Meyerson, Shintaro Miyake, Gen Quinn, Peter Saul, Fredrik Söderberg, Phoebe Unwin, Joep van Liefland, Jannis Varelas at Honor Fraser July 12th, 2008 - August 28th, 2008
Posted 7/20/08

Unlike No Room, the group show Jekyll Island does not offer the notion that even a part of the contemporary psyche seeks unity or wholeness. Instead, distopia and fracture reign absolutely and there seems to be no point in resisting. Its curators posit “underlying pathos of a psychopathic irrational society” as their purpose – they want to find emotion in a messed up world prone to upheaval, primal chaos, and schizophrenia. One would think that it would be fairly easy to find em... [more]